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POV: You film yourself getting DQ’d
NiKo is taking flight, kassad is the luckiest man alive, Spirit are standing still in a turning world and OG are still mediocre.
Who would’ve guessed that breaking the rules comes with consequences?
The RMRs have barely begun, and PARIVISION have been disqualified after a Valve-banned coach was spotted in their game room.
Valve’s rulebook states that, during the RMR CQs, “no team staff, including the coach, may be physically or virtually present or communicate with the players at any time during the match”.
It looks like PARIVISION missed the memo – or just ignored it entirely.
Wondering how they got caught? Well, the org itself posted a video that clearly showed the staff member in the room with the team. You can’t make this stuff up.
Thanks to the drama, KOI, Monte, and BLEED are back in the race for an RMR spot, as the winner of KOI vs. Monte will face BLEED for the final slot.
On a brighter note, the Czechs will be storming China. Not literally, we hope.
SINNERS, ECLOT, and UNiTY, who all field Czech cores, are set to battle for a Major spot. Amidst all this Czech excitement, there’s one player we have to highlight. Young up-and-coming talent oskar delivered a scorching 2.03 rating across 4 maps to clinch SINNERS’ trip to China. He’s still got it.
On the flip side, the only thing Major about ENCE was the scale of their disappointment.
They failed to qualify after losses to KOI, UNiTY, and Monte. This marks the first time the org will miss a Major since FACEIT London 2018. Changes are desperately needed.
You can find the full list of teams qualified for the EU RMR below:
NiKo to Falcons rumours are back. Is it 2023 again?
At midnight CEST, French streamer KRL decided to drop the bomb on us that NiKo will be joining Falcons in 2025.
He claims the teams reached an agreement and that NiKo was supposed to sign on Saturday night, but will do so on Sunday morning instead. As of writing, it’s 2 pm on Sunday, and we’ve heard nothing yet.
That doesn’t mean he’s wrong though, KRL has been pretty reliable on Falcons in the past.
He called the zonic, dupreeh and Magisk move and constantly talked about Falcons desire to build a super team. It’s pretty likely that this guy has sources in Falcons, which means it’s pretty likely that NiKo will join them.
This is a great move for Falcons since NiKo elevates bad teams to relevance and good teams to Finals losses.
For Falcons, right now all they need is any relevance.
Despite signing multiple proven winners, they’ve barely been qualifying for events, and for a team with the type of backing they have, that’s unacceptable.
But who knows. We thought NiKo was leaving G2 in 2023, and look at us now. NiKo to Falcons 2027 here we come.
Even if Falcons are turning the world around, Spirit are standing sturdy in their spot.
That’s at least according to chopper, who has basically said ‘we’re not making any changes until before the Major, and probably not after either’, which is… well, it’s a weird amount of foresight and seems a bit presumptuous.
If they lose every single game between now and the end of Shanghai, we have a feeling they might make a change. Though in his defence, he did say ‘unlikely’, we’re just being a bit of a dick.
He suggests that the backbone of the team is still learning how to play with each other, and they’re all so young and haven’t even reached peak form yet.
If donk hasn’t hit his peak yet, and Katowice wasn’t that, then we would be very surprised.
chopper also blamed himself for the poor showing at Cologne for not bringing the good vibes, but also says there’s ‘nothing to analyse’ from the event because Spirit didn’t even show up.
Which is… totally fair.
Overall, it’s an interesting enough interview. The fact that Spirit aren’t looking to make changes is the main takeaway, especially with Perfecto available.
Brave, we’d say.
We’re not saying that Falcons winning makes BLAST Fall Showdown an unserious event, but…
Well, actually, it’s probably more that there isn’t a winner at all. It’s a last chance qualifier, essentially, where the also-rans and thing-a-majigs of the Counter-Strike world get to duke it out for the prestigious award of going out 7-8th at a real BLAST event.
And for some reason FaZe were there, and, as you might expect, they top two’d by beating Rare Atom, paiN and OG. As simple as you like. Honestly, if you could qualify for every event by beating OG, we think we’d have a shot at getting into an IEM or something.
We jest, but for Falcons this is something to hold on to.
It’s not a big event win or anything, but beating Complexity, M80 and VP back-to-back-to-back is worth something. Those are three solid teams, and it’s proof that Falcons are at least improving.
Not much else interesting happened (OG were 3-4th, it wasn’t a serious event), but it’s worth mentioning that Complexity, Cloud9 and NIP finished even below OG and VP, so we might need to keep tabs on them.
NIP, for what it’s worth, had one of the worst series of the year against AMKAL. Even though we mentioned it on Friday, it was so bad we want to mention it again.
For crying out loud, NIP. You’re supposed to be winning events by 2025.
The final standings were:
1-2nd 🇩🇰 Falcons – Fall final spot, $20.000
1-2nd 🇪🇺 FaZe – Fall final spot, $20.000
3-4th 🇷🇺 Virtus.pro – $12.500
3-4th 🇪🇺 OG – $12.500
5-8th 🇩🇪 BIG – $7.500
5-8th 🇧🇷 paiN – $7.500
5-8th 🇺🇸 Complexity – $7.500
5-8th 🇷🇺 AMKAL – $7.500
